Car-door hanger



(No Model.)

D. 1-. VAN LIEW.

GAR DOOR HANGER.

No. 254,889. Patented Mar. 14 18182.

NITED STATES PATENT FFICE DENNIS F. VAN LIEW, OF AURORA, ILLINOIS.

CAR-DOOR HANGER.

SPECIFIGATIQN' forming part of Letters Patent No. 254,889, dated Maroh 14, 1882,

Application filed January 17, 1882 T0 all whom 't may concern:

Be it knovvn that I, DENNIS F. VAN LIEW, of Aurora,Kane eounty,State of Illinois,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gat-Door Hangers, of whieh the following is aspeoifieation.

Tbis invention is an improvement upon the ball-and-sooket car-doo1 hangers shown in Letters Patent to Alexander N. Monteer, reissued to myself as assignee on the 27th of April, A. D. 1880; and more especially does itreiate to the elongated sookets provided for the halls by n1y patent of August 2, 188]. It is designed to prevent the door fron1 rubbin g against the wall of the om when the door is being opened or olosed; and it consists in the novei oonstruotion of the soekets, as hereinaftel set forth.

The aocompanying drawinggives a verticaal seotion through the door, the hanging devices,

and the earside, illnstrating the present invention; and therein A represents the plate or carside, A the roof, and B the door. -F is the outside covering of the 0211; and G the eornice under the roof, to whch the carrier device is attaohed. 0 isthe eurved metal carrier, seoured to the ear-side by lag-screws 0, and is siu1ilar tothe carrier shovvn in my said patent of August 2, 1881, exeept that the horizontal part thereof,whieh forms the floor of thesoeket and snpports the ball, is bent sligbtly above and bevond the true horizontal, so as to form a sort of trongh, or, more accurately speaking, to give the hall a surface to roli on, w11i011 throughoutits lengthislaterallyinelnedaway from the ear, as shown. By this feature the ohilled ball 01 roller D is caused to gravitate away from the car, and it transmits this tendency to the door itself by giving to the horizontal portion of the metai hanger E, whchs (No model.)

secured to the door by boiis e, or equivalent fastenings, and is likewise similar to the hanger disclosed in my sad patent, 1ik6lltilll bend from the true horizonta], though in this oase thebendisdownwardinsteadofupward. This elearly appears in the dra.wing, wbere the broken lines show the 'ormation of the carrier and hanger as formerly made and as gven in the prior patent. It will be readily seen that the hanger thus bent Will naturally ineline away rom the ear-side if the bali does resist snob tendeney, and that the hall itself, so far from resisting, will increase said tendeney by its own bent outward from the car.

Instead of giving the horizontal portions of the carriers and hangers the inc:linations shown, the same resuit may be obtained by formingtherein longitudinal channeis,in whioh the ball will travel, locating snob chnnnels so that the rubbing will be avoided, and in this way a11 contact between the hall and the sides of its socsket may also be prevented. This 1 regard as the equivalent of the oonstruetion shown.

I have found by actunl use that my pres'ent invention renders the operaton of the door very easy, and tbat it avoids the scraping action against the car-side usnzdly found in al! outsde doors.

'lhe ball-andsocket hangercomposed of the carrier, the hanger, and the ball, both carrier and hanger having lateraily-inclined horizontal surfaces or ohannels upon saidsurfaees, substantinlly as and for the purpose set forth.

DENNIS F. VAN LIEW. 

